Table 1.

Socio-demographic characteristics of the study sample according to abortion stigma variables among women of reproductive age in Luanda, Angola.

	Would you do anything to help a friend or family member who needed to have a pregnancy terminated?		Is there anything you would do to help a friend or family member who terminated a pregnancy and still felt sick?		If you, a friend, or a family member terminated a pregnancy, would you avoid telling other people?		Total (N = 1545)
Variable	Yes (%)	Chi-square p-value	Yes (%)	Chi-square p-value	No (%)	Chi-square p-value	%
Agea		0.027		0.002		0.636
15–19 years	44.3		80.9		34.1		29.3
20–24 years	48.2		89.5		34.1		23.4
25–29 years	38.0		87.2		40.3		16.7
30–34 years	36.2		90.3		37.7		13.4
35–39 years	37.0		90.4		39.3		8.8
40–44 years	36.7		83.5		34.2		5.1
45–49 years	36.0		92.0		36.0		3.2
Education		0.286		0.226		0.642
No education	40.0		82.5		37.5		2.6
primary	41.1		84.9		34.9		41.9
secondary	44.3		87.4		38.0		41.2
university or higher	37.1		89.6		34.4		14.3
Pregnant now		0.062		0.720		0.866
No/don’t know	42.5		86.6		36.2		92.0
Yes	33.9		85.5		35.5		8.0
Has had abortion		0.031		0.106		0.287
No	40.9		86.1		36.6		90.2
Yes	50.0		90.8		32.2		9.8
Using family planning now		0.010		0.106		0.299
No	38.4		85.1		37.5		48.2
Yes	44.9		87.9		35.0		51.8

^aMissing 4 values were not included in calculations.